Faculty - Family and Community Medicine - Kalamazoo, MI
Job at a glance
Job description
Overview:
The Department of Family and Community Medicine (DFCM) at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine (WMed) is seeking an enthusiastic faculty member who loves teaching residents, delivering babies, and serving our community through our expanded family medicine specialty services at our new clinic. The DFCM welcomed a new clinic and a new chair in 2022 to support its dynamic faculty with a focus on faculty development and service to the community. We are excited and proud of our department’s street medicine program, OMM clinic, medically managed weight loss clinic, transgender clinic, skin and procedures clinic, sports medicine and palliative care fellowships, and a substance use disorders clinic starting in the fall of 2024, adding to our continuity clinic. Our dually accredited ACGME/AOA 9-9-9 Kalamazoo-based residency is housed in our new 20 room clinic and departmental offices ideally located to serve our diverse community. The DFCM is expanding and supports individual faculty interests and their skillsets. If you are passionate about teaching and interested in modest housing costs, access to lakes, trails, parks, forests, rivers, music, art fairs, museums and 4 beautiful seasons, then this could be your new path! Benefits include CME funding, generous vacation time, and a defined pension plan in addition to a 457b plan for 1.0 FTE faculty.
Responsibilities:
- Providing full scope family medicine including inpatient, outpatient, and obstetrics care with our residents and students.
- Providing clinical services through resident supervision and patient care.
- Participating in the WMed systems of quality improvement, utilization review, and outcomes management.
- Recruitment, supervision, education, and assessment of resident physicians.
- Providing high-quality instruction for the graduate and undergraduate medical education.
- Other duties as assigned by the Department.
Qualifications:
- MD or DO degree.
- Completion of Family Medicine Residency from an accredited program.
- Board certification or eligibility by the American Board of Family Medicine or the American Osteopathic Board of Family Physicians.
- Eligibility for Michigan medical license.
- Dedicated commitment to providing a quality educational experience for residents and medical students.
